The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-12-08
deneralities.


Stfecl Jan OH G4O.VU pail.
1t is proposed to erect a new thread mill at
Fail River employing 700 hands.
Paris syndicate representing fifty millions
has rorncrcd the tin and copper market.
The price of coal is said to be declining, and
no coal famine is to be feared this season.
\ new dormitory to be called Hastings Hall
is to be built for Harvard College, TO cost
100000.
The man who murdered Octayius Cato six
teen years ago in Philadelphia has confessed
his crime
by law of Congress, passed during the
present year, no alien c.;ll hereafter purchase
any public lands.
1t is said that General Clinton b. Fiske of
New Jersey will be the Prohibtory candidate
for the Presidency.
The National line steamer The Queen was
swept ly monster wave during her last WOW.
age from Liverpool.
Five men We're terribly burned near WASH
ington, Pa, by the ignition of natural gas in Il
well they We're sinking.
The majority against prohibition at the re-
cent election in Atlanta was lips. The sale of
liquor ill begin at once.
The Continental Life Insurance Company of
]
er impaired over - per cent.
/ The indictments against the twenty-five am
archl>ts i'll Chicago who We're not tried have
been reinstatetl and warrants issued.
Millionaire Carnegie advises young men to
/ shun three things. First, liquor drinking:
second. speculation; third, indorsaton
I Prof. Williams of Ottawa predicts that there
will be no recurrence of disastrous earth
] ri,.ah nfn
The monthly debt statement shows the total
debt, less cash in Treasury, $1.240. 1S3. o52 81:
increase during November, 81, 400 5000.
During the year ending June 30 there were
1910 letters without any address whatever
sent to the Dead Letter Office at Washington.
BY Il recent decision of the United States
Circuit Court of Wisconsin. women in that
State have the right to vote in all city elections.
The prohibition national committee has de-
clded to hold its national convention the first
week in June, 1855. The place has not vet
been selected.
Mr.. \. j. Bradlce declines the nomination
for Mayor of Boston rendered him bv the Git
liens Convention. Mr.. Hart accepts the Re-
publican nomination.
\. w. Henderson, Il drummer, who was ar
rested III North Carolina for selling goods with
out Il license. has been discharged by the Unit
ell States Circuit Court.
In the nine States where the third party Pro-
hbitioni>t> had tickets in nomination last month
their total vote fell off A., ;}9 by comparison
with the year previous.
The London Daily Telegraph levotes several
columns to Il discussion of Mr.. IgnatuS Don
nelly groteSGue absurdities about the Bacon
4 Shakespeare cryptosram.
The National Committee of the prohibition
party met at Chicago aud elected Professor
samuel Dickie. of Michigan as chairman, to sue
coed the late John b. Finch of Illinois.
Tine American Fishery association has cstal!-
li>hed headquarters at Washington and Luther
Maldocl>. of Boothbay, the secretary, has al
ready commenced his work in that city.
san Diego is trying to divert the whaling liz
tere>t of san Francisco to itself by Offering
tempting port facilities and privileges. The
business amounts to about $780, 900 a year.
Natural gas was struck at Ncna. o.. at IA
depth of 300 feet The daily flow is estimated
at II 1000. 900 cubic feet, sufficient to furnish
flame >evcnty-five feet high from Il fo,lr-inch
pipe
The statement is made that in July. 1856. Dis
trct Assembly No. 80. X. of H., which includes
the largest number in Massachusetts, numbered
$1,000 members, while to-day they do not num-
Der $4,000.
The American Consul at Melbourne has al-
piled TO the commission having charge of the
arrangements for the exhibition to be held in
Melbourne for 100000 square feet of space for
American exhibitors.
/ In the distribution of desks to the Senators.
the one which for years served Roscoe Conk-
ling was given to William +. Chandler. The
desk which Mr.. Blaine had has now fallen to
Mr. Hale. his successor
Mrs. Abel. who had been prepared for burial,
near Oakland. Ill.,. sat up in her coffin. Sec
ing her surroundings she tainted away. In
al hour she gave birth to Il son. and mother
and child are now doing well.
\ bronze statue of President Garfield, of
heroic size, was unveiled at Cincinnati on
Thursday. 1t is located at the intersection of
Eighth and Race streets. There was pro-
ccssion, GRAFTON and other exercises.
+ Tho mooted question of steamship companies
liability for Il passengers baggage has been
decided by Judge Brown of the United States
District Court at New York. in the case OF
Gu>tavus Heyc. The decision is that the
pany is responsible for loss
The annual report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture recommends a transfer of the seed
division to the State and Territorial Expert
ment stations, and disapproves of the effort to
make the Department executive, with the head
Il member of the Cabinet. 1t states that the
year was one of profit.
I Toledo, Ohio has Il grievance against the
Standard Oil Company. The corporation is
about to build pipe line from Ohio to New
York. one thousand miles long, to cost $4,000
600. connecting Ohio and Pennsylvania oil
fields. Oil can then be turned either eastward
! or westward at will.
| Charles Seaman, aged fourteen, of Baltimore,
started out with $50, rifle, revolver and no
end of cartridges. to kill buffalo on the plains.
! lie reached Pueblo, Col, with all his outfit,
but hungry and without money. Now he is
willing to defer his hunting trip and will be
sent home to his mamma.
! A Congressional Representative, who has re-
Gently returned from England, says that the
} British Government was anxious to comprom-
Use with the United States on the fishery ques-
! ton on any terms until it detected anxiety on
the Americans part. and then it became obsti-
/ nate in its demands.
| The annual report of the Comptroller of the
Currency shows the total number Of National
Banks organized up to Oct. 81, 1906; 625 have
gone into voluntary liquidation and 119 have
failed, leaving in operation 3,O6l. Number of
new banks formed last year, 225; closed during
the year 49, twenty-five went into voluntary